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A very compelling book, to me a bit different than many of the other books I have read by survivors of the Holocaust. Helen Lewis and her family were from Trotnov, Czechoslovakia. As a young girl and the only child of her family, she led a comfortable, secure life. Tragically, her father died suddenly in 1934, changing forever the stability and security of her life. At six years old, after attending her first dance class, Helen decided she was going to be a dancer. After she left school, she moved to Prague to study towards that goal. In the spring of 1938, she married a young man named Paul and also received her diploma from her dance school. Now she qualified as a dancer, choreographer, teacher. In 1939, Germany took over Czechoslovakia, changing Helen's world for ever. With a friend's help, in 1940 both Helen and her husband were issued visas for Shanghai. Both Helen and Paul had their parents to look after so they refused the visas. Eventually, Helen, Paul, and their families were shipped to the Terezin Ghetto. Helen also suffered through Auschwitz and Stutthof before escaping to freedom. I thought this was a wonderful book, very positive. Through the entire book the feeling I got was of hope, which Helen never gave up on. A great read.


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A Time to Speak Helen Lewis 9780786704866 Books Reviews

Quite recently, I wrote a blog post for my website, in which I claim that five books changed my life; that’s to say, five books may have formed just who I am today – to a certain degree, at any rate; as much as books can.

But for any avid reader, what a decision to have to make – to be limited to five books only!

Helen Lewis’ Time to Speak exemplifies the difficulty of such a choice. My five books are all classics, the ‘newest’ being written in 1958, and they’re all fiction… so where would Helen Lewis fit in?

Never mind that, Time to Speak should still be regarded as a timeless classic.

I’ve read a few fiction/non fiction books depicting the Holocaust, but never have I read one – non-fiction – written with such blatant honesty, grace and humility.

There is so much ‘more’ that Helen Lewis – a Holocaust survivor – could have done with this book – Think Schindler’s List, Helen, touch up your already extraordinary experience with a bit of colour and creative license; think Spielberg, cash in!!

But no. For the lovely, the beautiful, Helen Lewis, it was simply, finally, a time to speak.

And never did ‘less is more’ mean so much.

Forget rancour, forget bitterness, you won’t find that… But you, the reader, tell us how she makes you feel, when she depicts how a German soldier furtively gives over his lunch, to her, a young woman dying on her feet in Auschwitz, so that she might live… No poetry in the world can match that.

A little gem of a book, that the world should be forced to read…
A very special person to have suffered so much and yet be without bitterness. She afterwards gave generously of herself helping others.
A very compelling book, to me a bit different than many of the other books I have read by survivors of the Holocaust. Helen Lewis and her family were from Trotnov, Czechoslovakia. As a young girl and the only child of her family, she led a comfortable, secure life. Tragically, her father died suddenly in 1934, changing forever the stability and security of her life. At six years old, after attending her first dance class, Helen decided she was going to be a dancer. After she left school, she moved to Prague to study towards that goal. In the spring of 1938, she married a young man named Paul and also received her diploma from her dance school. Now she qualified as a dancer, choreographer, teacher. In 1939, Germany took over Czechoslovakia, changing Helen's world for ever. With a friend's help, in 1940 both Helen and her husband were issued visas for Shanghai. Both Helen and Paul had their parents to look after so they refused the visas. Eventually, Helen, Paul, and their families were shipped to the Terezin Ghetto. Helen also suffered through Auschwitz and Stutthof before escaping to freedom. I thought this was a wonderful book, very positive. Through the entire book the feeling I got was of hope, which Helen never gave up on. A great read.